Category: Analysis

About Facebook Integration on eEvent Service and Event Statistics Data

If you attend the event #StartupLokal anniversary some time ago, maybe you have heard about the Facebook integration on the eEvent service which was also announced at the presentation delivered by Edy Sulistyo one of the co-founder of eEvent. This integration is the deep Facebook integration done by eEvent in order to providing greater benefits of their service.

Now it’s been almost a month ago, and a few days ago I tried to contact Edy Sulistyo to inquire about the progress of Facebook integration on the eEvent service and about some brief statistical data from eEvent service.

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7 Mobile Internet Trends By John Liu

My first day on the Global Mobile Internet Conference was an amazing experience where I could learn many things about the mobile industry and the Internet directly from the world class champs. There are so many things I learned from following the keynote speakers at this GMIC, and one of the most interesting was the keynote from John Liu, Head of Google China. The topic that was delivered was 7 mobile internet trends in the world, and I think it is a knowledge that is relevant to the startups of Indonesia.

Indonesia itself is very popular with mobile and social media activity that often confuse people from all over the world, at least that’s the impression I got when talking to GMIC speakers and asked their impression of Indonesia.

So, what are the seven trend of mobile Internet in the future according to John Liu?

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Report From Beijing : What Indonesian Startups Can Learn from China

Reporting from Beijing for Global Mobile and Internet Conference VIP Welcome Dinner, where a few of China’s experts on mobile and internet took the stage and share on how foreign tech companies succeed in China.

As we know, China is famous for its market loyalty where huge multinational companies like Yahoo, Microsoft and Google have been given a hard time penetrating the market. In fact, none of these tech multinational companies are #1 on their categories in China. All categories, be it e-commerce, social network, search engines, etc are lead by a local product. Baidu beats Google, QQ beats Facebook, Ushi.cn beats LinkedIn, Alibaba beats eBay and the list go on.

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Reviewing the Promotion and Monetization Strategies of Sixreps.com

Since its emergence, Sixreps.com continues to grow, both from members and from the developments relating to the introduction of this service to the public. DailySocial first wrote about SixReps in early October while it still in the introduction and not open to the public yet. One thing which for me should be underlined is the CEO of this service and niche segments they’re targeting.

SixReps implemented strategies to create a niche social networking, with a special segment of sports fans – fitness. Although it can be used by all people, but various features and facilities that exist in SixReps are optimizing fitness fans users. Denny Santoso (founder and CEO of SixReps) also mastered the field of fitness, because of his background as a CEO of Ultimate Nutrition Indonesia. It’s a mix that can support each other.

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Rockto.com and LintasBerita on Service Development Plan After The News of Digg’s ‘Death’

Late last week came a few articles that basically showed that Digg is ‘dead’. The term ‘dead’ here certainly is using quote marks, not actually closed, but more on the services that dimmed and its fading brand charisma.

I put enough attention to what is going on Digg, although I did not use their service very often but I wrote about their updates several times, such as Digg v4. Digg for me is one of the many legends of the web, as written by Sarah Lacy, they made a breakthrough by bringing the element of Web 2.0, and one of its founder is also a rockstar in the Internet world, Kevin Rose.

However, the development of the Internet is dynamic, when one service is popular; other services would come later to drop the popularity of the previous service. Digg is one of the case example, in addition to the development of other more popular services (Twitter – Facebook) internal policies with the release of v4 that was opposed by those loyal users and it lead Digg to restore some of the favorite features that were previously removed are a few ‘mistakes’ that Digg made.

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Waiting for Facebook Places Adaptation By Local Users

Check-in facility in Facebook had been able to use since a few months ago, but the release for public users (global scale) is still gradual. For Indonesian users, check in at a particular location via Facebook Places at least can be enjoyed for BlackBerry users, while for iPhone users – despite the places icon already exist – it could only be used widely around last week. At least that’s what happened to me and some friends when we tried the check-in facility on Facebook.

Just like any other check-in facilities, Facebook Places provides facilities for users to view locations around them (by GPS), do check in, and then tag the friends who are in one location. Users can also view a list of location updates from their friends and if the location is unavailable, users can add the locations.

The question is will the Indonesian Facebook users adapt massively? Will there be a location-based promotions appear through Facebook, and how is the opportunity of location-based promotional for local businesses?

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Why I Haven’t Bought Any Daily Deals Promo Coupon Yet

DailySocial often review about various daily deals websites that are popping out everywhere lately. Most of them are considered as not less than groupon clones, although there are some which have different selling techniques. Each site must have its pros and cons, but what they offers are similar, which is the price promotion of an item or service that is more interesting than the regular price, whether it’s food, hotel services, or consumer goods.

There are sites that look interesting and segmented, but there are still less appealing appearance and still lack of the offering frequency. Each site had a different partner when they offer what they consider as interesting discounts or promotions. Then why have not I try to buy a daily deals promo coupon?

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First Experience, Getting Discounts with Foursquare Application in Local (Indonesia) Venue

Even if it might sounds a bit weird, frankly I was rarely even never use any discount facilities obtained from the check-in at a particular location with Foursquare applications, although I’m using location-based applications quite often such as Koprol, Foursquare and Gowalla.

It is still a hard thing to do – to get a discount by showing the results of check-in at a particular location – due to several reasons, such as my laziness, since the behavior to show the results of check-in itself is not my usual pattern of behavior in visiting a specific location (a cafe or a place to eat). Which means I have to add one new pattern in the activities of eating, for example by showing the phone’s display after I checked-in.

The second one is my own doubts on the certain location of business (cafe, etc.) whether they are ready to campaign through Fousquare system or just because it is popular, and the application of a discount program based on the activity of check-in itself is still unfamiliar for most location owners (though they are growing) compared with other promos such as discount coupons.

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[Guest Post] eEvent on Launch Conference

The following article was written by Edy Sulistyo (picture on the right) founder of eEvent ( Edy S is one of eEvent co-founders, the other co-founders are Andi Sie and Lawrence), who will share eEvent’s experience in participating Launch, startups conference founded by Jason Calacanis. eEvent got the opportunity to introduce their service in front of Adeo Ressi (Founder Institute), Mark Pesce (The New Inventor), Jose Caballer (desainer MySpace redesign), Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Brian Alvey and all of the participants.

I’ve been following updates on Sillicon Valley, startup and all events related to startup launch. I am often astonished and inspired every time I hear news about a startup getting the opportunity to pitch and present on prestigious events such as TechCrunch Disrupt (formerly TechCrunch 50). Because even though that startup might not win TechCrunch Disrupt Award, just by being there and present is enough to take them to a higher level, in branding or traction. Because the fact remains that there are hundreds of other startups have to be denied for a presentation due to so many other remarkable startups are chosen.

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Nokia: The Future of QT/Symbian Developers

We’ve heard of longterm partnership news between Nokia and Microsoft announced a few days ago and become sensational in internet world up until now. The long term agreement stated that Nokia will use Windows Phone 7 operating system in its smartphone device and decided not to use Symbian as has been done before.

Reaction from technology industry varies between the ones who gladly welcome Nokia’s decision to use better OS than Symbian while others upset thinking that Nokia left QT and Symbian’s application developer community that Nokia had built.

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